Working as a team of portfolio managers, members of the Student Managed Investment Fund class examine and pitch potential stock buys for their peers to scrutinize.
Mange emphasizes that the students make the investments choices, not him.
company, if you understand money and where it’s going, you can be successful.”
He guides his students and urges them to deeply research their stocks, but by the end of the course, the students vote on which stocks to buy and direct Mange to make those trades.
The students only invest in large cap stocks, companies with a market value of at least $10 billion. They’re aiming to outperform the S & P 500, with a return on investment better than 10 percent.
“That’s part of the reason I thought this class would be a cool opportunity,” says Sam Krygier, another MBA student. “I don’t have a lot of experience investing and I wanted to get into it, get a knack for it,” he says. “It’s a good skill set to have in any kind of business you want to go into. Whether you’re starting a company, running a department or division of a
However, reaching that threshold may be more difficult for the students managing the portfolio today than when the fund was initially established five years ago. In 2008 and 2009, the stock market was experiencing historic lows. Continued on page 30
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